Who were the choices for "actually it's one of them"

A bit too much to cover in a mind meld. Keep in mind they have to make this accessible to someone completely unfamiliar with Star Trek. Nero's backstory was simple enough, he's a Romulan from the future and he's pissed over his home being destoryed.

Probably Robert April dies in the fourth issue of the comics and his son Harrison (serving as an agent in Starfleet) comes to know about his father being alive all these years and how he was helping an endangered race achieve freedom. Harrison holds Starfleet responsible for his father’s death.

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Way too much backstory. No way.

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I just covered it in a few sentences. They did more with Spock's flashback in ST09.

I think that starfleet kept some superhumans for themselves aka (khan) and decided to unleash them when it was needed !!! Possibly against the Klingons them been a more stronger and phiscal race, humans would not stand a chance and crippling starfleet would be a good opportunity to strike !!! Robert April also holds the key in this film and BC will some how surprise us who he really is. ??? IMO

Gary Seven doesn't work for Starfleet, seeing as how he lived in the 1960s.

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Presumably Gary Seven was from the future, since he had intimate details of when the Vulcans integrated with Humans, etc... In fact, one could conjecture that he was part of the same organization as the "temporal police" (or whatever they were called -- I didn't watch Enterprise).

Gary Seven doesn't work for Starfleet, seeing as how he lived in the 1960s.

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Presumably Gary Seven was from the future, since he had intimate details of when the Vulcans integrated with Humans, etc... In fact, one could conjecture that he was part of the same organization as the "temporal police" (or whatever they were called -- I didn't watch Enterprise).

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That really doesnt't make sense, someone from the future serving as the watchdog that prevents nuclear war. If that requires someone from the future, than that implies nuclear war is what's supposed to happen, and time travel laws should forbid Gary Seven's presence.

And before we start spinning this in "well maybe he was a rogue agent serving his own agenda against his superiors" let's just stop and look at the intent. Gary Seven was originally intended to be a human specially trained by aliens on a distant world to help humanity though a rough part in their development. Indeed, given Assignemnt Earth was originally pitched as a seperate series completely unconnected to Star Trek, I doubt anyone had time travel in mind at all.

Besides he didn't have any kind of "intimate details" about when humans met Vulcans, he just noticed that this mostly human starship crew had a Vulcan among them and assumed they had to be from the future.

Indeed, given Assignemnt Earth was originally pitched as a seperate series completely unconnected to Star Trek, I doubt anyone had time travel in mind at all.

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The intro narration, from the original Assignment: Earth standalone pilot script...

In the hands of one man...
could rest the future of all mankind.
His name... Gary Seven...
born in the year 2319 A.D.
The only survivor of Earth's attempt
to send a man back through time to today.
Assignment... fight an enemy
who is already here, trying to destroy us.
If he fails... there'll be no tomorrow!​

Gary Seven doesn't work for Starfleet, seeing as how he lived in the 1960s.

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Presumably Gary Seven was from the future, since he had intimate details of when the Vulcans integrated with Humans, etc... In fact, one could conjecture that he was part of the same organization as the "temporal police" (or whatever they were called -- I didn't watch Enterprise).

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That really doesnt't make sense, someone from the future serving as the watchdog that prevents nuclear war. If that requires someone from the future, than that implies nuclear war is what's supposed to happen, and time travel laws should forbid Gary Seven's presence.

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But if history records a nuclear war not occurring until the mid-21st century, it makes perfect sense for him to try and stop it from happening in the 1960s.

Gary Seven is a man sent back in time from the 24th century, the only Earth man to ever survive the transit.

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As for claiming to be from the 1960s, it's possible that he was "recruited" by agents from the future. Although, it's also possible he simply lied to Kirk et al. because of a "need to know" basis (e.g. he came from even further in the future, and couldn't risk them being tempted to know what happens).

Well, the time travel aspect of Gary Seven's origins was certainly dropped when they turned the story into a Trek episode. I see no reason to add them over 40 years after the fact.

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But the time travel aspect couldn't have been completely dropped. The technology Gary Seven used was certainly not vintage 1960s. And I'm not sure how you explain the morphing catwoman, let alone his knowledge of Vulcans.

So, however you want to slice it, there was some variety of time travel involved with Gary Seven. If it wasn't him, it was the people who set up his pad and recruited/trained him.